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~ALL LINKS ARE LIVE~
This week on Rhode Island Public television,
WSBE: (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)
The Enchanted Island
"The Enchanted Island," a Jeremy
Sams pasticcio about the war between Prospero and Sycorax from "The
Tempest" being interrupted by the four lovers from "A Midsummer
Night's Dream," whose honeymoon cruise has shipwrecked on the island.
DURATION: 210 MIN
DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]
GENRE: PARENTS PICKS
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The Ice Break, Birmingham Opera Company, review:
'lush'
Michael Tippett’s fourth opera deserves to have been
withdrawn from cold storage, says Rupert Christiansen
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Sviatoslav Richter: The Pianist Who Made The
Earth Move
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Why American football players make perfect
opera singers
The unusual story of an American football
star turned opera singer proves that there is a deep affinity between music and
sport, says Ivan Hewett
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Twitter Outrage Takes Toronto, Canceling Two
Pianists
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| Pianist Valentina Lisitsa Gilbert Francois/Courtesy of the artist |
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Glass On Legacy: 'The Future ... It's All
Around Us'
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"I'm more and more coming to the idea," composer Philip
Glass says, "that it's the lineage and the connection to the past and the
connection to the future — that is the real connection."
Eamonn McCabe/Redferns
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Violinist Hilary Hahn Remembers Her Earliest
Influences
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Neville Marriner: 'My wife has told me to keep June
free'
How did a so-so violinist from Lincoln end up one of
the world's greatest conductors? And will he ever slow down? As Neville
Marriner hits 90, he talks to Stuart Jeffries about setting up the Academy of
St Martin in the Fields orchestra, never saying no – and the teacher who had
him beaten for over-gesticulating
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OPERA ON THE INTERNET
WITH
DAVE D' AGUANNO
The Met's matinee broadcast this coming
Saturday afternoon (April 18) is not a LIVE performance, as is usually the
case. Instead, what will be broadcast is the November 10, 2014 performance of
Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" with soprano Eva-Maria
Westbroek singing the role of the murderous Katerina.
If your operatic taste normally runs in a more
conservative vein, you might want to listen to the March 20, 2014 performance
from Quebec of Handel's "Solomon" on French Radio. Usually regarded
as an oratorio rather than a full-fledged opera, this 1748 work features a
rather well-known orchestral passage ("The Arrival of the Queen of
Sheba") which, incidentally, was played during the 2012 London Olympics.
Bellini's "I Puritani" can be heard
on the Belgian station Klara. The performance being featured is one that
recently took place in Vienna. Having watched the video of this production with
this particular cast of singers, I can safely say that tenor John Tessier (as
Arturo) takes ALL the high notes -- including the F above high C in Act 3. (Not
sure if it's actually an F, but it's definitely above high C.)
Rossini enthusiasts can rejoice over the
prospect of choosing between 2 of his operas to tune in to, one of them being
his early (1812) one-act comedy "L'Inganno Felice" which can heard on
Swedish Radio in a performance from Venice that took place this past September
14.
On the other hand, in a more serious vein,
there's his 1813 opera "Tancredi" to be heard on German Radio. It's a
recent (March 27) performance that took place in Lausanne.
Then there's a Tchaikovsky opera that doesn't
happen to be either "Iolanta" or "Eugene Onegin" or
"The Queen of Spades." Instead, it's "The Enchantress" in a
performance from Vienna that took place on September 14, 2014.
Enjoy!
DAVE
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The Met
Saturday afternoon radio broadcast
April 18, 2015
1:00 pm
April 18, 2015
1:00 pm
LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK
by Dmitri Shostakovich
by Dmitri Shostakovich
Conlon; Westbroek, Kotscherga, Very, Duncan, Jovanovich
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No Opera on
WGBH this week!
WGBH this week!
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